Monthly Archive for October, 2008

before leaving for Sumatra, a boatload of new coffees!

We have quite a list of new arrivals this week, and since I am headed to Sumatra, I am pushing to get them all listed. From top of the list to the bottom, here they are!

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Coincidentally, Perfect Mocha-Java Blend Ingredients!

We added our new arrival of Ethiopia Kembata Grade 4 Dry-Process, a coffee from Southern Ethiopia with peach, tamarind, lemon, spices and chocolate… complex and intense, another great natural Ethiopia lot. We also have our first new crop Indonesia at the warehouse, Java Kajumas Curah Tatal. It’s your typical low-acidity, oily body Java except this coffee has sweetness and nuance I haven’t seen in Java coffees in recent years. We suspect it is partially from older Typica cultivars. Coincidentally, these two lots make an awesome Mocha-Java blend, 50% of each!

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something central, something south, and 2 decafs

10/17: We have 2 new lots from Central and South America and 2 new decafs today:

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cupping in quick time


i took this movie at 1 fps in peru at the “Concurso de Cafe de Calidad” this past week. it starts in round 2 with cupping, then cleanup, setting up the new tables for round 3. I kinda like the dead space in between rounds … but actually, i had forgot my camera when the jury went off to discuss the round 2 scores, so it was an accident… at the nearest table you can see me, looking kinda scruffy, in the light shirt, and geoff watts from intelligentsia in the dark green shirt, along with maritsa and lourdes, catadores peruanas. -tom
ps: I put together this little movie of clips from the peru competition too … rock out!

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